I don’t know what my life would have been like if I’d never gotten into show business.
DIANA ROSSInstead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
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My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don’t fight about it.
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If I’m with a man I’m soft and buttery.
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It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
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You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
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I have a lust for life.
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You can have a lot of New York and still see what’s going on in the rest of the world, I think – like in China.
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It’s easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.
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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
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I don’t think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.
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So I’m not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I’m happy that I have them; I think it’s good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
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I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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So every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can’t change the songs; people still want to hear “Lady Sings the Blues” and they still want to hear some of the oldies.
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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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I’d traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don’t want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I’m not afraid to talk money.
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